Sunday, January 17, 2016

On the move again...

There was the H Park where I was going to send out some nice shots, but a Chilean Beer Gremlin intervened and forced me to delete photos instead of downloading them. I salvaged one panoramic pix from my I-Phone.

Then there was the trip back to the V Park where fall weather made a comeback despite being mid-summer here. The trees capture the gloomy all around feel of that day. The one thrill was coming across El Toro. This bull would yield no quarter, not even a hindquarter. I'm no matador but I know when a male bovine paws the dirt, it's not the same as a dog wagging it's tail.

Then a visit to the C Park where the real adventure is driving its single lane gravel, rutted through road. Its a game of Chilean Chicken when you meet an oncoming vehicle. No driver wants to back up a steep road bank. It was a contest of who blinks first. I'll admit to losing the battles half the time. When that ordeal was done, I spent an evening in a moldy smelling cabana complete with a cold shower and thread bare towels. Just like a stay in a Hilton Hotel only different.

Then today, I was surprised in a good way. I visited an M Park which none of my three Chile travel guides mentioned. I took a chance and I'm glad I did. I found a delightful 12 mile hike to some splendid miradors (lookouts). Summer was my companion again. This time the long range forecast looks like it's here to stay. Better late than never I suppose.

I'll go back to the M Park manana. It was that good. OK, you are now caught up, sort of.

About Me

I was born to humble, yet poor Jewish immigrants from the Old World. Nah, we won’t go back that far. I’m a 60 year old retired firefighter who spent 28 years responding to various types of fires, lots of medical emergencies, heaps of car wrecks and one escaped parakeet in a tree. I describe my present living situation this way: My few worldly possessions reside in Boulder, Colorado with my nephew and his wife. The rest of my stuff (three backpacks, three bicycles, two laptops, heaps of maps, fig bars, bananas and cold beer) fits into Barley the Van. I now travel, a lot. I'll try and describe it all on this blog. I'm hoping one day Ford Motors notices this Blog and invites me and Barley the Van to appear in a commercial. If you enjoy this blog, please pass it along to friends and family. If you don't like it, pass it along to your enemies. PS. Are there any wandering, wondering women with wanderlust out there? PPS. Have I ever mentioned I once wrote a Gold Medal IPPY award winning book?
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